messenger
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“I’m not a messenger for anybody in the world. I’m a messenger for my community.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
But Ms. Finley is shooting the messenger when she takes aim at TikTok.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Dopamine is a chemical messenger that helps control movement, coordination, and balance.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
Herman was a combative messenger for Bass, issuing broadsides against her rivals as she fought for a second four-year term.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
They thought he had forgotten to come, so they sent a messenger to our home to remind him.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
His lab identified it years ago as one of the thousands of peptides that act as chemical messengers in the human body, one he believed might someday have therapeutic uses for humans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Humans domesticated the birds and used them as messengers and as food for thousands of years.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
These chemical messengers play important roles in mood, attention, motivation, memory, and the body's response to stress.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026
Company dancer Lloyd Knight, costumed as the Preacher in “Spring” and captured in a determined stance on a boulder, faces the book’s last page, which quotes Graham: “Dancers are the messengers of the gods.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
And he sent out messengers inviting the most noble lords in the land to come to a banquet to celebrate the opening of Heorot's doors.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
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